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Support for people aged over 50 is available under New Deal 50 Plus, and the Pathways to Work programme for incapacity benefit claimants, which is being piloted in Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Argyll and Bute.
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12 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has issued to local authorities in the last 12 months in respect of the integration of services for asylum seekers and new immigrants. The Executive wrote to all Scottish local authorities on 4 October 2005 inviting them to develop appropriate language plans for the communities they serve.
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29 November 2005
This takes into account factors such as the age profile of the profession; changing pupil numbers; numbers of new entrants to the profession and those leaving due to resignation, retirement etc.As part of the exercise subject specialisms are prioritised to make certain intakes to initial teacher education reflect the teachers needed.
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21 November 2005
The document contains timelines which set out the actions we now expect from constituent parts of the NHS by particular dates. The Health Department’s new delivery group will monitor the full sets of commitments made in Delivering for Health and will publish progress.
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10 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been recruited to the fire and rescue services under the new procedure of multi-tier entry and accelerated promotion, broken down by equality strand.
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10 November 2005
In the light of those responses, which generally supported two of the proposed six models for a new structure, we have been in discussion with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Chief Fire Officers Association on how they see the model favoured by the majority of respondents as working in practice.
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8 November 2005
Ministers are aware that NationalServices Scotland is conducting a review of the Scottish National Blood TransfusionService’s (SNBTS) blood processing activities located at their Liberton, Edinburgh site.The economics of these activities have been affected by the need for vCJD precautionsand the development of new, synthetic blood products. Discussions have...
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26 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made, or intends to make, representations to Her Majesty's Government and Ofgem in respect of the impact of rising electricity prices on Scottish industry under the New Electricity Trading Arrangements which has resulted in it being stated that prices have risen from £15 per megawatt hour in 2000 to a current £5...
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22 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive when it estimates that the (a) M74 extension, (b) A68 Dalkeith Bypass, (c) A8000 upgrade and (d) new crossing of the Forth at Kincardine will commence and be completed and what the current estimated total cost is of each project.
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14 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms are in place to measure the public benefit of the new NHS consultant contracts. The Scottish Executive issued a Health Department Letter (HDL(2005)28) on delivering the benefits of Pay Modernisation in July 2005.